April 17th, 2008 at 11:52 am
Building off all the amazing advocacy work you’ve been doing on college campuses for the past several months, we though you ONE Campus Challenge-rs might be interested in On Day One , a new web initiative and contest we’ve launched at the Better World Campaign. On Day One is an interactive tool for presenting and debating ideas for the Presidential Candidates—literally centered on a simple question: what should the next Administration should do “on day one” to address the most pressing global challenges? To make sure the candidates are hearing from youth voters, we’ve launched a fun youth contest to pick out some of the best ideas of what the next administration can do on the first day of its term to help craft a better world. The contest, called “Y In The World: International Cooperation and My Generation,” is geared toward anyone under 24 and gives you the opportunity to submit a video of what YOU think the next president should emphasize on January 20, 2009.
How can the next administration best tackle global poverty? How can it stop the spread of the global AIDS pandemic? What steps can it take to ensure the rights and safety of women and girls around the world? “Y In The World” is a contest all about ideas—and you telling the candidates YOUR ideas of how the U.S. can work with the international community to help solve these—and many other—pressing global challenges. In addition to contributing to an important policy conversation, the winners of the contest will receive an all-expenses paid trip to the July Youth Leadership Summit at UN Headquarters in New York City and you will get to be a guest blogger for On Day One.
Tell your friends, get out your video camera, and start pondering what YOU think the next president should do on Day One of his or her administration.
- Nicole Sawran, Better World Campaign
TAGS: Action, video